Gun-wiper



(No Model.)

G. SVLEET.

GUN WIPER N0..288,459.. v I Patented Nov. 13, 1883.

227 9 P 5 imam Fi i UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. LEET, OF BRIDGEPORTROONNEOTICUT.

GUN-WIIPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 288,459, dated November13, 1883.

Application filed May 8, 1863. (No model.)

I To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES S. LEET, a citizen of the United States,residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State ofConnecticut, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cleaning-Rods,of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in cleaning-rods for guns, theobject being to provide improved joint-connections for woodencleaning-rods, wherebythe metallic connecting devices thereof areentirely hidden beneath the surface of the rod, so that they cannot bemade to hit the muzzle and interior of the gun-barrel and injure thelatter when the rod is used to wipe it out.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figures 1, 2, and 3are side elevations of the top, middle, and bottom sections of acleaning-rod embodying my invention. Fig. 4 is aview, partly in section,of the screw end of a section of the rod; and Fig. 5 is a like view ofthe nut end of a section.

In the drawings, a, b, and 0 are the several sections of a jointedwiping or cleaning rod, usually made of suitable wood or othernonmetallic material, and provided with screwconnections for uniting thesections to form a rod of suitable length to reach through a gunbarrel.

As ordinarily made, the rod-sections have their joint connectionssecured thereto by means of metallic pins, ferrules, or sockets, orother devices, which form a part of the surface of the rod, andwhen therod is used in a highly-polished gun-barrel, and said metallic parts aremoved back and forth against the interior of said. barrel, the latter isoften scratched and injured thereby.

To obviate the above-named inconveniences I construct my improved rod asfollows: Each of the sections a b c is provided with screw- Iconnections, as shown, male and female. The male connection consists ofa screw, 6, having a shank extending into one end of one of saidsections, or both, its screwed end projecting from the end of thelatter. Said screw 6 is secured to the end of the section by atransverse pin, 22, passing through the rod-section and through theshank of said screw. The ends of said pint are preferably sunk below thesurface of the rod, as shown. The female screw connection for saidsections consists of a nut, a, inserted into the end of the section,adapted to receive the screw 0, and secured in the section by a pin, 1),passing through the latter and said nut in substantially the same mannerin which said pin 2; passes through the end of a section and the shankof screwe. The sections of the rod are united by screwing them together,and thus the ends thereof are brought firmly against each other, and thesurface of the rod from end to end is entirely free from any metal partswhich can injure a gun-barrel.

What I claim as my invention is The combination, with the sections of ajointed non-metallic cleaning-rod, of metallic male and female screwconnections, substantially as described, secured in said sectionsbeneath the surface thereof.

EARL-A. RIsHoR, WILLIAM H. NORTHALL.

